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Patent GB-1432828-A (GB)
Title: Securing and adjusting of optical units
IPC: B60Q1/068
Filed: 1973-09-12
Abstract: 1432828 Mounting vehicle headlamps REGIE NATIONALE DES USINES RENAULT and AUTOMOBILES PEUGEOT 12 Sept 1973 [14 Sept 1972] 42800/73 Heading F4R A vehicle headlight securing and adjusting arrangement comprises at least one headlight 4 or 5, including a backing plate 7 firmly fixed to a reflector 6, and a casing 3, the plate 7 being mounted on the casing 3 by way of two opposed adjustment screws 17 engaging nuts 18 fixed to the casing 3, a fixed non-resilient attachment 11, 12 and a spring attachment means 14 for urging the headlight towards the casing 3, wherein the pivot adjustment axes from the fixed attachment 11, 12 through respective adjustment screws 17 are at right angles, the screws 17 are supported at the plate 7 by sockets 16 (Fig. 4) and the heads of the adjusting screws 17 have manually operable control knobs 20 which are situated behind the casing 3 with respect to the headlight. As shown, two headlights, one long range the other short range, are mounted in this fashion on a common casing through an auxiliary casing 3a riveted to the first casing 3 may be provided to enable the two headlights to be supported at different depths. Each fixed attachment comprises a U-shaped support 11 riveted to the plate 7 and having a lug 11a which engages a slot in the bent plate 12 secured to the casing 3a or 3. The spring 14 is fixed at one end to a support on the plate 7 and at the other end the end coil 14b is fixed in a slot in a bent tab 25 of a U-shaped support 23, 24 fastened to the rear of the casing 3. The adjustment screws 17, Fig. 4, have rounded ends which engage in the flared blind hole 16b of the resilient plastics sockets 16 that are supported on the U-shaped supports 15 mounted on the plates 7. As shown, the longrange headlight 4 has an auxiliary cam adjustment 26, Figs. 1 and 5, mounted about its range adjustment screw 171a, which is normally urged by spring 29 into a position giving greatest range but which has a pull knob (not shown) attached to a recess 26g in the cam which may be manually operated to reduce the range of the headlight. Screw 171a allows the completion of the adjustment of the unit. The arrangement may be readily assembled by engaging the tab 11b in the slot in support 12, ensuring the screws 17 align with their respective sockets and then pulling the end coil 14b of spring 14 over the tab 25. Disassembly is readily effected in the reverse manner.
Patent GB-1029560-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to laminated tape structures and methods of making them
IPC: C09J7/20
Filed: 1962-11-15
Abstract: 1,029,560. Card mounts. EASTMAN KODAK CO. Nov. 15, 1962 [Nov. 24, 1961], No. 43180/62. Heading A4X. [Also in Division B5] A frame for mounting inserts on cards is formed from a tape structure 10 (Fig. 1, not shown) comprising a first tape 11 having a pressure sensitive adhesive on one surface thereof and a plurality of spaced transverse slits 20 defining a plurality of areas spaced longitudinally of the tape and a second tape 13 which is provided with longitudinally spaced rectangular apertures 14 which are placed in registry with the spaced areas of tape 11 -when the tape 13 is applied to one surface 16 of tape 11, the apertures 14 being of substantially the same longitudinal dimension as said areas but of smaller transverse dimension. The slits 20 are such as to sever the tape 11 into individual sheets, the adhesive surface which is ex- Cosed in the apertures 14 being protected by a third removable tape 15. By cutting central openings 22, 22<SP>1</SP> (Fig. 4, not shown) in both tapes simultaneously with slits 20 individual frames 21 are formed which are each supported over a respective aperture 14 by the marginal edges of tape 13. An insert is mounted in an aperture 40 (Fig. 6, not shown) of a card 41, the removable tape is peeled off the tape structure 10, which is moved over the aperture 40. A frame 21 is then pushed out through the aperture 14 into contact with the card 41 and the insert.
Patent GB-1307140-A (GB)
Title: Locking devices for securing concentric cylindrical parts
IPC: F01D25/24
Filed: 1971-09-16
Abstract: 1307140 Cotters GENERAL MOTORS CORP 16 Sept 1971 [21 Sept 1970] 43224/71 Heading F2H [Also in Divisions E2 and F1] The invention relates to a locking device and is described with reference to its application for securing turbine stator casing parts together. The turbine casing comprises upstream, intermediate and downstream parts 14, 12, 10, shroud ring membsrs 36, 34, 32, 30 being located within the parts 14, 12, 10, the shroud rings being located by tongue and groove connections. The casing part 12 is formed at its upstream end with a flange 68 which is secured to a flange on the upstream casing part 14 by bolts 18. The shroud ring 34 is formed with a flange 60 which is received within an annular recess in the casing part 14. A series of part-circular recesses 78 are formed in the upstream face of the flange 68 and an annular groove 80 is formed in the flange 60 of the shroud ring such that the recesses 78 are aligned with the recess 80. A partcircular disc 70 is disposed in each recess 78, the disc having a circular portion 72 and a chord portion 74, a semi-circular recess 76 being formed in the chord portion; the disc is formed with a screw-driver slot 82 whereby the disc may be rotated. In the unlocked position of the disc shown at the right side of Fig. 3 the chord portion 74 is adjacent the shroud ring 34. Upon rotating the disc to the locked position shown at the left side of Fig. 3, the circular portion 72 engages within the annular recess 80 in the shroud ring 34 whereby the shroud ring is located axially of the stator casing. The bolt 18 is entered through the flanges and engages the recess 76 in the locking disc 70 whereby the disc is locked against rotation. In place of an annular recess 80 in the shroud ring 34, part-circular recesses only may be provided whereby the shroud ring is prevented from angular movement relative to the outer casing. In a further embodiment the recesses such as 80 in the flange 60 of the shroud ring are open at their upstream sides so that the shroud ring is constrained against movement relative to the stator casing in an upstream direction only.
Patent GB-1010888-A (GB)
Title: Combination hunter-fisher survival unit
IPC: F41B3/02
Filed: 1964-10-23
Abstract: 1,010,888. Catapults. J. F. WHITE. Oct. 23, 1964, No. 43369/64. Heading A6S. [Also in Division A1] A crotch for a toy catapult has cavities in each limb for various equipment making it a hunter/fisher survival kit characterized in that it includes a spindle in the handle for a fishing reel and line whereby the crotch may be held in the hand for fishing. The handle 10 is removable by unscrewing and contains spare fishhooks 34<SP>1</SP>. The fishing reel 38 is provided with a fold-away handle 41. The other two limbs 11, 11<SP>1</SP> of the crotch have grooved caps 17 for convenient connection of the rubber sling 14 and are removable to allow dry storage of matches 11m and buckshot 11s A compass 36 is also fitted.
Patent GB-1567592-A (GB)
Title: Tear-open carton
IPC: B65D5/70
Filed: 1977-10-18
Abstract: The tear-open package with an inner bag is intended for liquids. It has a tear-off part (25b) which is located on a lid flap (25), is divided off by an incision (28) and a perforation (29), and is glued to an edge section of the inner bag (12) located below it. In order to facilitate the start of tearing and the tearing-off of the inner bag, its edge (33) is provided with an incision (34) in the region below the incision (28) in the lid flap (25). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-435823-A (GB)
Abstract: 435,823. Knitting-machines. BLACKBURN & SONS, Ltd., G., Kirkewhite Street, Nottingham, and TOWERS, E. J., 11, Clifton Road, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire. April 3, 1934, No. 9973. [Class 74 (ii)] A thread-laying device of the friction-disc type for making elastic goods on circular rib machines, is provided with a quick return motion to enable the feed roller to traverse, when required, more quickly away from the centre of the disc than towards it. As applied to a machine with a fixed needle-cylinder the feed screw F is attached to a star-wheel G. It may be driven in the reverse direction at a quicker rate by a star wheel H and gearing J, J<1>. The wheels G, H are turned by four tappets K carried on slides L, M moved in and out by control mechanism of the pattern chain type. Three of the tappets K may be mounted on the slide M, which thus turns the wheel H three times the distance that the wheel G is turned. The slides L, M may act together to turn the wheel H four times the normal amount. In another form, applicable to machines with rotary needle-cylinders, the star-wheels are replaced by ratchets, which are advanced variable amounts by the pattern-chain through levers, links and pawls Multiplying-gear is interposed between the screw F and one of the ratchets.
Patent GB-1071155-A (GB)
Title: Method and apparatus for connecting a submarine pipeline to an offshore well
IPC: E21B43/013
Filed: 1963-11-05
Abstract: 1,071,155. Wells &c. CHEVRON RESEARCH CO. Nov. 5, 1963 [Nov. 5. 1962], No. 43601/63. Heading E1F. [Also in Division F2] A platform 40 may be lowered from a vessel 20 and detachably secured to the fixed base 30 of a submerged wellhead 24. The platform is lowered on a drill pipe to the base down a line 28 and is finally positioned by posts 32, 36, 38 mounted on the base. The platform has posts 50, 52, 54 connected to the vessel by lines 58. A wrench socket on a drill pipe is guided by the lines 58 to the vicinity of the platform, and is rotated to turn latches 78 to secure the platform to the base. A terminal fitting 90 for a bundle 122 of submarine conduits is lowered down the lines 58 and fixed to an upstanding pipe 98 on the base, a line 114 extending from the vessel through the fitting and having its bight connected to a plug 120 at the end of the bundle which is at a location remote from the wellhead. The plug is hauled into the fitting by the line 114, and fixed to the fitting by a locking screw 144. The bundle comprises conduits for gas, oil and hydraulic fluid for actuating a well control head 162, and has at its end a part 154 of a multiple passage coupling 156. A part 158 of a similar multiple passage coupling 160 is fixed to the wellhead, and the head 162 is located between the couplings 156, 160. The head 162 is connected by a tool joint 208 to a drill pipe 44 and guided into place over the wellhead by a spider 210 engaging the lines 58. The coupling 160 is first connected, and the upper part of the coupling 156 is lowered onto the part 154 and connected, a television camera 236 supported by the spider 210 facilitating the latter connection. Both couplings are of similar construction. The coupling (160) (Fig. 12, not shown) comprises articulated members (178) which are tightened into grooves (194), (170) on the upper and lower parts of the coupling by a left and right hand screw forming the spindle of a worm wheel (196) which is rotated by a wrench socket (64) on a drill pipe. In a modification the platform is connected to the base by hydraulic rams which are actuated by fluid from a drill pipe which engages with sockets in the platform, and the end of the bundle is supported by a sledge which serves to locate the coupling part 154.
Patent GB-1163293-A (GB)
Title: Stabilised Oscillator
IPC: H03B5/24
Filed: 1966-09-29
Abstract: 1,163,293. Automatic voltage control. AUTOMATIC TIMING & CONTROLS Inc. Sept. 29, 1966 [Jan. 7, 1966], No. 43601 / 66. Heading G3R. An oscillator with a regulated output comprises: - input terminals 93, 95; an output terminal 94; output transistors 77, 83 associated with an oscillation -sustaining positive feedback network including a Wien bridge 65, 91, 63, 85; a circuit including a terminal 5 connected to a reference voltage source, transistors 7, 8, 9 and 21, capacitors 13, 17 and resistors 15, 19 for producing an error signal in dependence upon variations in the amplitude of the oscillator output; and a D. C. negative feedback circuit including a potentiometer 53, a resistor 49, and an optional temperaturecompensating thermistor 47, this circuit being connected to the base of a transistor 43, which base also receives an A. C. negative feedback signal by way of a resistor 41 and capacitor 39 to the emitter of which is applied the said error signal. The arrangement is such that the unijunction transistor 35 acts as a variable impedance, controlled by the magnitude of the error signal, in the negative feedback circuit so that the amplitude of the A. C. negative feedback signal applied to the input of the oscillator is correctively varied in a sense to maintain constant the amplitude of the oscillator output, the modified signal from uni-junction transistor 35 being applied to the output transistors 77 and 83 by way of the transistor 43 and further transistors 59, 69 and 87. The D. C. feedback signal serves to stabilize the mean D. C. level of the A. C. output.
Patent GB-958892-A (GB)
Title: New metallisable monoazo dyestuffs containing n-alkyl-n-cyanoalkyl-sulphonamido groups and metal complexes thereof
IPC: C09B45/14
Filed: 1960-12-20
Abstract: 4-[N-methyl- or -ethyl- or -butyl-(b -cyanoethyl)-sulphamido]-2-aminophenols are prepared by condensing 3-nitro-4-chloro-benzene sulphochloride with methyl-, ethyl- or n-butyl-amine, hydrolyzing the chloro-substituent to a hydroxy group condensing with acrylonitrile and finally reducing the nitro group to an amino group.  5 - [N - methyl - (b  - cyanoethyl) - sulphamido]-2-aminophenol is prepared by condensation of benzoxazolone-6-sulphochloride with N-methyl-N-b -cyanoethyl-amine and hydrolysis of the oxazolone ring.ALSO:The invention comprises o : o1-dihydroxymonoazo dystuffs obtained by coupling a diazotized o-aminophenol containing in the 4- or 5-position to the hydroxyl group a tertiary sulphamido group of formula <FORM:0958892/C3/1> with an azo component coupling ortho to a hydroxyl group and the chromium and cobalt complexes thereof.  The metal complexes are 1 : 2-complexes prepared in the normal manner and contain at least one molecule of a dyestuff as specified above linked to each metal atom. The dyes are used to colour natural and synthetic polyamides in red and black shades. In examples, the following dyes are prepared and the metal complex shown in parenthesis: 1) 4 - [N - methyl - or - ethyl - or - butyl-N - (b  - cyanoethyl) - sulphamido] - 2 - aminophenol --> 1 - phenyl - 3 - methyl - 5 - pyrazolone (Cr); (2) 5-[N-methyl-N-(b -cyanoethyl)-sulphamido] - 2 - aminophenol --> 1 - phenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone (Cr); (3) 4-[N-methyl-N - (b  - cyanoethyl) - sulphamido] - 2 - aminophenol --> b  - naphthol (Co); (4) an equimolar mixture of the dyes specified in (1) and (2) is chromed; (5) a mixture of the dye 5-nitro - 2 - aminophenol --> 1 - acetylamino-7-naphthol and the dye specified in (3) is chromed.
Patent GB-1363107-A (GB)
Title: Reciprocating-piston fuel injection internal combustion engine
IPC: H01T13/46
Filed: 1971-09-21
Abstract: 1363107 Fuel injection I C engines KLOCKNER-HUMBOLDT-DEUTZ AG 21 Sept 1971 44024/71 Heading F1B An injector 5 provides a jet or jets 6 of fuel directed transversely of the air rotating in the piston combustion chamber 2 and a spark plug 4 is located in the vicinity of the edge of the chamber 2 at or near piston T.D.C. and a short distance from the fuel jet or jets but not directly in the path of the fuel. The spark gap 9 is protected from the air-flow by a housing 17 having one or up to four openings extending around from 90 to 180 degrees of the housing circumference. The openings (18), Fig. 5 (not shown) may comprise two diametrically opposed 90  degree arcs. The axis of the plug 4 may intersect a line parallel to the piston axis at an angle not exceeding 20 degrees. The centre electrode 13 of the plug 4 may be low-alloy steel treated with chromium aluminium or silicon or comprise two materials, one being a copper or silver core. Plates 15 and 20 of 90% platinum and 10% iridium may be soldered in a vacuum by means of gold to the centre and earth electrodes. The gap 9 may be between 0À15 and 0À6 mm and located from 2À5 to 5 mm from the base of the cylinder head. The edge 22 of the electrode 19 surrounding the plate 20 may be 0À5 mm in width.
Patent GB-1206294-A (GB)
Title: Method and means for separating the components of biphasic fluids
Inventor: LAVERY CHARLES ARTHUR
IPC: B01D19/02
Filed: 1967-09-27
Abstract: 1,206,294. Separating oil/gas/foam mixtures. COMBUSTION ENG. Inc. 27 Sept., 1967, No. 44046/67. Headings B1M and B1T. Oil/gas foam mixtures from oil wells are separated into oil and gas by passing the mixture via inlet 2 through momentum absorption baffles 10 into the bottom of tank 1 where as the mixture flows towards liquid outlet 4 some of the oil and all of the foam and gas passes through liquid/gas separation 12 and 13 which comprise corrugated plates 42 sandwiched between sloping flat plates 39 and 40. The oil separates from the mixture and agglomerates on the sides of the trough of the corrugations and the separated oil leaves the troughs via apertures 48 and travels down the sloping bottom plate 40 to the bottom of the tank in a direction generally transverse to the generally longitudinal path of the mixture. Any residual liquid entrained in the gas is removed by separators 12 and 13. In the embodiment of Figs. 8-10 (not shown) apertures (55A) are also formed in the crests of the corrugations.
Patent GB-944715-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to cathodic protection systems
IPC: C25B11/10
Filed: 1959-12-29
Abstract: A composite anode for use in an impressed current cathodic protection system for control of corrosion and which is practically nonconsumable, capable of handling large current densities, and mechanically strong comprises an electric current discharging surface 12 made of platinum, rhodium, or an alloy of platinum group metals containing at least 50% of platinum or rhodium, or at least 50% of platinum and rhodium together and which is bonded, in metal-to-metal electrical contact, to an underbase of titanium 11 or an alloy containing at least 90% of titanium.  The platinum group alloys may contain up to about 10% of other elements which do not affect the corrosion <PICT:0944715/C3/1> <PICT:0944715/C3/2> resistance of the anode.  The anode preferably has an inner core of metal 13, Fig. 4, e.g. copper, silver, or aluminium, which has good electrical conductivity and which is completely sheathed by titanium metal.  The platinum, which can be provided with a platinized surface, can be attached to the titanium e.g. by plating, spot-welding, spraying, but is advantageously applied by vacuum sublimation or cathodic sputtering methods.  Suitable platinum metal alloys can contain 50%, 10%, 5% and 10% respectively of palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, and iridium, pure or commercially pure titanium, or alloys of titanium containing at least 90% of titanium being suitable for the underbase 11. Commercially available rhodium can be satisfactorily applied to the titanium underbase by electroplating.  The platinum current discharging surface can be discontinuously dispersed on, without entirely surrounding, the titanium base 11 and the anode can be in the form of a strip, a dished disc, or a spiral for encircling a buried pipe.  Reference has been directed by the Comptroller to Specification 877,901.
Patent GB-925637-A (GB)
Title: Process for the comminution of siliceous iron ores
IPC: B03B1/02
Filed: 1961-12-12
Abstract: 925,637. Grinding ores. BROKEN HILL PROPRIETARY CO. Ltd. Dec. 12, 1961 [Dec. 16, 1960], No. 44437/61. Class 59. A process for the autogenous grinding of ores comprises tumbling a lump ore in a rotating grinding drum, simultaneously subjecting the ore to the influence of a chemically active atmosphere, and maintaining the temperature within the drum between 200‹ and 1300‹ C. Lumps of hematite-quartzite ore are fed from a sealed hopper 1 into a gas-tight heated rotating grinding drum 2 provided with radial lifter bars 7. The drum 2 preferably operates at temperatures within the range 500-700 C. or varying cyclically about a temperature of 600‹ C. so that the hematite is reduced to magnetite and the drum is preferably heated internally through the partial combustion in a burner 8 of reducing gases constituting the chemically active atmosphere. The drum is preferably rotated at speeds within 30% above or below the critical speed whereby a layer of ore is maintained on the inner surface of the drum. Small amounts of an auxiliary grinding medium, e.g. hard metallic balls, may be used. The outgoing solids and gases may be classified in an elutriating column or other sizing equipment external to the mill, the oversize returning to the mill and the undersize passing either separately or with the stream of gases to separators where it is segregated and passed to a magnetic concentration plant and the iron content recovered.
Patent GB-1247174-A (GB)
Title: Abrasive article and method for its production
IPC: B24D3/00
Filed: 1968-09-19
Abstract: 1,247,174. Grinding. AVCO CORP. 19 Sept., 1968 [5 Oct., 1967], No. 44527/68. Heading B3D. [Also in Division C4] A method of abrading in which particles of polytetrafluoroethylene, polytrifluorochloroethylene, or polymers or telomers containing tetrafluoroethylene and trifluorochloroethylene are applied to the abrasive surface while it is moving and thereby performing an abrading action. The abrasive article may be an abrasive wheel or a coated abrasive.
Patent GB-1403263-A (GB)
Title: Roller-set for a vibrator
IPC: E01C19/28
Filed: 1972-09-27
Abstract: 1403263 Roller sets for vibratory compactors LOSENHAUSEN MASCHINENBAU AG 27 Sept 1972 [2 Oct 1971] 44620/72 Heading A1B A frame 10 mounting at least three rollers 12 is releasably connectible to the vibratory compactor plate 18 by clamps 16. The clamps comprise angle irons 28 having their vertical limb hooked 32 over an upturned lip 34 of the plate 18 and the horizontal limb bolted by eye-bolts 42 to a top plate 36 of the frame 10. The eye-bolts have their heads retentively engaged in slots 38 in the frames top 36, the slots 38 permitting the clamps 16 to be movable with respect to the frame 10 and thus permitting the frame 10 to be used with compactor plates 18 of different widths. The rollers have a resilient covering 14.